Florence Marina State Park

If you want an awesome hiking experience, visit Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia's "Little Grand Canyon". It's incredible. But unfortunately, only primitive camping is supported at Providence Canyon, so if you're in an RV, you'll need to head a few miles down the road to Florence Marina State Park.

If you don't have a boat, there isn't much to do at Florence Marina. But it does have very long, wide, and spaced out sites with full 50A hook-ups including sewer. Cell service was spotty, and there is no WiFi at the campground. At our site, satellite TV was completely unavailable due to tree cover. It's a basic campground, but was well kept, clean, and quiet. I'd definitely stay here again to visit Providence Canyon.

You can reserve in advance yet it's not site specific. We found a great spot on the end facing the woods. Lot's of big Travel Trailers were in for the weekend we were there over Halloween.

The campground is nice, very nice restrooms with washers & Dryers in them. They have a fish cleaning house down on the end where we camped and folks with boats were happy to share their crappy with us they caught more than they needed. There is a boat ramp & marina at the state park and the state park rents John boats at a good price. The office had a camp store & they even sold bait there.

The campground is on the Chattahoochee river which is on the GA/AL line so you can have a fishing license for either state. There are Gators, Blue Herons, Egrets and more.

During Halloween week they created a haunted trail & you can walk it or take a hay ride during their Halloween fest. As we pulled in they had fake grave sites that had funny sayings on them.
We were lucky to get a good spot since the campground filled up closer to the weekend.

Close by about 6 miles up the road is Providence Canyon which looks like a little Bryce canyon yet was made do to poor farming way back when. You can walk the rim or down in the canyon both are nice. Across the road is an old Church that has an old graveyard next to it.

Florence Marina is a beautiful little park near the famous Providence Canyon recreation area. It has water and power only and is first come/first served in terms of picking your campsite. Not all of the sites have 50 amp so you need to seek out the ones that do if you require it.

The campground is beautiful right on a marina and river. It is in a wooded area and isolated so the roads getting to the campground are very curvy so take it slow. It is also basically in the middle of nowhere so bring supplies. We did have a weak Verizon wifi signal. Each site had a picnic table and fire ring. There are not really any trails at the site but there are open spaces for walking and even a mini golf course.

Absolutely take a day to hike through Providence Canyon which is only 15 mins away. Totally worth the trip alone.

For beer fans the Omaha brewing company is only about 10 minutes away, but their tasting room has very strange hours (it closed at 6pm on the Friday we arrived) so make sure and check their schedule. We used this as a base camp to visit Columbus, Ga which has killer white water rafting along the river walk and some great looking zip lines.